Dmitry Furmanov

Dmitry Andreyevich Furmanov (7 November 1891-15 March 1926) was a Russian Bolshevik commissar during the Russian Civil War.

Biography
Dmitry Andreyevich Furmanov was born on 7 November 1891 in Sereda, Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Ivanovo Oblast, Russia). He joined the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and became a political commissar, serving under the Bolshevik general Vasily Chapayev. He wrote a book called Chapayev about the Red Army general under whom he had served, and he died of meningitis in 1926. His hometown of Sereda would be renamed Furmanov after its most famous inhabitant, and a street in Almaty, Kazakhstan is named for him.